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Studies in Old and Middle English

by Jacek Fisiak (Volume editor)
©2012 Edited Collection 240 Pages

Summary

This is the second volume of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Foreign Influences on Medieval English held in Warsaw on 12-13 December 2009 and organized by the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the Academy of Management in Łódź (Wyższa Szkoła Przedsiębiorczości i Zarządzania). The conference was attended by scholars from Poland, USA, UK, Germany, Austria, Japan, Finland, Italy, Ukraine and Slovenia. Their papers covered a wide range of topics concerning the area of language contact in Old and Middle English from orthography, phonology, morphology and syntax to word semantics.

Details

Pages
240
Publication Year
2012
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631616611
Language
English
Keywords
Medieval English orthography phonology language contact
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2011. 240 pp., num. tables and graphs

Biographical notes

Jacek Fisiak (Volume editor)

Jacek Fisiak is a retired professor and head of the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland), and currently head of the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the Academy of Management (Wyższa Szkoła Przedsiębiorczości i Zarządzania) in Łódź. He has published widely in the area of English linguistics including the history of English, Old and Middle English and historical dialectology on both sides of the Atlantic.

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